Plume

Museum number:
1-10048
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010048
Alternate number:
154a (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Forked feather dance plume. Carried or worn in dances. This plume was used by women. 1-10047 and 1-10048 were a pair used by one dancer. "Ephe did not know whether this reed (or this kind of plume?) was used "in the old times".
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
West Point, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; West Point
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Ephe Cummings
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Carried or worn in dances. This plume was used by women. 1-10047 and 1-10048 were a pair used by one dancer. "Ephe did not know whether this reed (or this kind of plume?) was used "in the old times".
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "tiuka" - dance plume; "puiya" - the reed used in the bangles. Photo: 15-4813.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plume, accession number 1-10048, described as Forked feather dance plume. Carried or worn in dances. This plume was used by women. 1-10047 and 1-10048 were a pair used by one dancer. "Ephe did not know whether this reed (or this kind of plume?) was used "in the old times".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plume, accession number 1-10048, described as Forked feather dance plume. Carried or worn in dances. This plume was used by women. 1-10047 and 1-10048 were a pair used by one dancer. "Ephe did not know whether this reed (or this kind of plume?) was used "in the old times".

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